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bushel

[boosh-uhl] / ˈbʊʃ əl /


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The corn and soybean farmer watched as prices fell from $7 a bushel for corn in early 2022 to just $4.29 three years later.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

At 60 pounds to the bushel, that is roughly 800 pounds of soybeans for every American.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Corn futures rose above $7 per bushel in early 2022 as commodities traders weighed fertilizer shortages and supply disruptions.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

This week, most-active wheat futures settled at their highest level since June 2024, at $6.58 a bushel, according to data from FactSet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

But my heart was a burning candle of pride, and I could not hide it under a bushel.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The very night he died, in 1935, his widow and her sister shoveled bushels of his private papers into their West Adams mansion’s basement incinerator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

U.S. farmers will produce a record-breaking harvest of 4.52 billion bushels of soybeans in 2026, according to projections from the U.S.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

U.S. corn yield forecast, in bushels an acre, for the 2026/27 season, down from the Agriculture Department’s projection in July for 183 bushels an acre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Along with bushels of cash, the new investing powers will receive something else from these deals: new scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

The farmers, who lived in quaint stone cottages surrounded by broad fields, grew yellow squash and long green beans and bushels of wheat.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

He did mostly cutting and fitting, but some "busheling."

From The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress by George Edmund Haynes

They got enough to keep 'em busy busheling the jobs them war correspondents turns in on them.

From Worrying Won't Win by Montague Glass

So his third evil is the busheling and harrying of genius….

From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort


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